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The Idea of the University
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is a university a research institute with students, or and educational institution with research around the edges – or something in between?

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
John Locke
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What made Locke the Founding Fathers' favorite philosopher?

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
2024-02-11 Lincoln as a Philosopher
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What was Lincoln's basic philosophy, and did it change over the course of his Presidency?

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 6
The Separation of Powers
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What are the philosophical arguments behind the separation of powers in the US constitution?

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Losing the Nobel Prize: A Conversation with Brian Keating
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Dr. Brian Keating
Astrophysicist Brian Keating discusses his book, "Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor."

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  • Added: May 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 1
Giving Account: Thoreau at 200
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Thoreau's grave in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery , Credit: Doug Storm
On this occasion of the birth of Thoreau we are forced to confront the vexed nature of our reception of his genius. So many of us hate Thoreau, whi...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 58:05
The Flattened Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Age old discoveries and scientific advances have long dispelled the belief that the earth is flat. Recent technological advances have moved recorde...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 05:24
TPV03 My Throwback - Khartoum Goes Boom!
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about the British army in Africa.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
Mario Soares: A Tribute for an Ocean Exemplar
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Mario Soares, former PM and President of Portugal, statesman, exile, political prisoner, "father of democracy", passed away last week at the age of...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 05:09
The 21st Century Maritime Museum
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Maritime Museum on the Hong Kong waterfront.
In October of 2015 Peter Neill, Director of World Ocean Observatory and host of World Ocean Radio, attended the bi-annual conference of the Interna...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 05:32
Putting an earring in my ear: the centennial of the Armenian Genocide
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A lone sailboat flying the Armenian flag to commemorate the centennial as marchers cross Golden Gate Bridge above
On top of the highest hill in San Francisco is the Mount Davidson Cross -- a monument to the Armenian Genocide. Friday, April 24th marks 100 years ...

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  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 14:15
  • Purchases: 1
HICK: A LOVE STORY -- Terry Baum Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Terry Baum talks fulfilling her destiny, presenting the evidence, and the advantages of a one-woman show.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2015
  • Length: 21:47
Andrew Bacevich: America’s War for the Greater Middle East
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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How do you end an endless war? Thirty years ago Jimmy Carter declared the Persian Gulf a "vital" focus of American foreign policy. Since then, U.S....

Bought by WRPI


  • Added: Aug 08, 2014
  • Length: 58:36
  • Purchases: 1
Peniel Joseph on Stokely Carmichael (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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This week marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act. At the end of June, 1964, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Accessible Media Inc.


  • Added: Jul 07, 2014
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 2
Top 100 Americans?
From: Jeff Karr
Series: The Jeff Karr Show
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What's wrong with this list?

  • Added: Jun 10, 2014
  • Length: 03:24
256: Ocean Traffic
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Joseph Mallord William Turner, Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On), 1840., Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The ocean has served as a means of exchange for all manner of cargo: oil, chemicals, waste, arms, manufactured goods, raw materials, and human bein...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2014
  • Length: 05:06
Episode 28: Collecting the past
From: Cate Morrison
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We time travel backwards to talk vinyl, old sounds and collecting records

  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
May 19th, 2011 Shomburg Symposium on Malcolm X: A Life of Re-Invention.
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a symposium on Malcolm X, held at the Shomburg Center after the release of the late Manning Marable's book,...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2011
  • Length: 59:09
Problem Solving, Then Poetry - Kwame Anthony Appiah & C.K. Williams
From: Open Source
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We're talking with Kwame Anthony Appiah and C.K. Williams this week. The philosopher and storyteller Kwame Anthony Appiah at Princeton is on the tr...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
This I Believe - Sufiya Abdur-Rahman
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Sufiya Abdur-Rahman believes being black is beautiful and not a condition she has to rise above.

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2008
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 3
Gloria Estefan: 90 Millas
From: Joyride Media
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New one-hour radio special dedicated to Cuba's musical diaspora, and its rich heritage that continues through its most prominent exiled artists.

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  • Added: Aug 31, 2007
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
A Howl for Literary Freedom
From: Dick Meister
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It was 50 years ago this summer that a judge rejected attempts to ban poet Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" as obscene and virtually ended government book-b...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2007
  • Length: 03:30
This I Believe - Studs Terkel
From: This I Believe
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Acclaimed oral historian Studs Terkel believes when it comes to action, there is strength in numbers.

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  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 7
Active Voice Radio Interview: Mark Klempner- Dutch Holocaust Rescuers
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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Mark Klempner is the author of The Heart Has Reasons- Holocaust Rescuers and their Stories of Courage. We explore Mark's process of meeting the Res...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2006
  • Length: 19:19